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NCAA Bans SC For Two Years
Southern
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. XLVIII
•0>72
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1956
NO. 39
'DO NOTHINGS'
PCC Penalties Backed By Policy Croup; Troy
Ineligible Till July, 1958
Terzian to Blast Lazy Senators
By WES GREGORY
Certain ‘ do nothing" ASSC senators, who have not thus far proposed legislation will receive a slap on their respective wrists at tonight’s Senate meeting at 7:15.
ASSC Prsident Carl Terzian plans to voice his disappointment and disgust for those senators who have not bothered to query iheir constitu-
ents regard might benet “I am rati cert a i
the way tion.’’
"It a tors
ng legislation which it them.
ier disappointed that Senators are not find-what students want in of constructive legisla-Terzian cracked, is obvious that ihese Sen-arc depending too much on my office and Vice President Vi Jameson's office for legislative material." he declared.
Senators have found material concerning legislation in these two student body offices, rather than by contacting their constituents according to Terzian.
Troy Camp leaders
Petitions are now available for chairman and co-chairman of the Troy Camp project, which involves the long range organization of an expanded Troy Camp setup, he said.
Terzian will announce to the Senate his appointments to these major ASSC posts from the applicants w ho apply today in his office. 215 SU.
“These posts provide a good opportunity for energetic, devoted student leaders to launch the lone-ranee Troy Camp pro-jpct which will culminate in university-owned Troy Camp fa- j cilities.” Terzian said.
Foreign Students Representative Raliq Ahmed will ask that an objection by the Afro-Asian students be entered on the Senate minutes.
The Afro-Asians claim they wer<> denied use of university facilities to hold a meeting on campus, in view of their demonstration last week over the Middle East controversy.
liable Commendation
Senator-at-large Clunie Denholm will enter a resolution commending former Foreign Students Advisor Edward Gable for his work with the foreign students. Gable has resigned this post to accept employment in the East.
Junior Class President Larry Sipes will present his revised Junior Class Constitution to the Senate for approval.
Another resolution by Ahmed will place the ASSC Senate on record as supporting the stand taken by the United Nations concerning the Middle East.
Miss Denholm also plans legislation to create an elections evaluation committee of five who will investigate the whole system of election rules.
Many student leaders have felt for a long time that definite j changes in the election rules were necessarv.
Leaders to Tell Campus Detail To IFC Moms
The general subject of “Students on Campus” will be discussed this morning at the annual Friendship Breakfast sponsored by the Interfraternity Mothers Club.
Four student body leaders will discuss topics related to student activities before the mothers of new pledges, following a breakfast at 9:30 in the foyer of Town and Gown.
Leader* Tell W hy Mortar Board President Lou Scarborough will discuss “Service. Professional and Honorary Organizations on Campus." In addition. Starle Coffee, president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, will outline the activities and reasons for social organizations.
She will be followed by Greg Taylor, president of Blue Key. w ho will discuss student government at SC.
Following the panel discussions. ASSC President Carl Ter-ziin will sum up the three previous talks and then outline his “Reasons for the Existence of Student Activities.”
Mothers of the new pledges will be welcomed by Mrs. Stanley Gulliver, president of the IMC.
The lour student leaders will (Continued on Page 4)
GEORGIE WHITE
. . . river runner
Woman River Guide to Talk To Peak Club
Georgie White, the West’s only woman river-runner and rough water guide, will be on campus Friday to narrate her
films.
These films were taken during her trips through the Grand Canyon via a rubber raft.
The collection of films go under the titles of "Call of the Canyon" and “Beckoning Waters." They are dramatic, educational chronologies of a 21-day expedition in rubber life rafts through 330 miles of the Grand Canyon.
Presented by the Trojan Peak Club, these films show some of the geological wonders, the running rapids and many of the pertinent details of life on a river. Along with Mrs. Whtie’s films will be pictures taken by members and friends of the club.
The movies may be seen free of charge in 101 Harris Hall at 7:30 p.m. There will be free parking available in the faculty parking lot.
Two Soloists Slated for Noon Musical Today
Phyllis George and Fred Bergstone will be featured as soloists when Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity in conjunction with tbe School of Music presents the third program of the Music at Noon series in Hancock Auditorium today.
The Trojan Woodwind Ensemble will also perform with the soloists, under the direction of Clement Hutchinson of the SC faculty.
The program will feature works of Handel, Haydn. Beethoven. Milhaud and Kennan.
The Music at N’oon series has two remaining programs for the fall semester. They are scheduled for Nov. 28 and Dee, 12.
Speaker to Tell Club of Prophets
Dr. Willis W. Fisher, professor of Old Testament literature, will be the guest speaker at tonight's regular meeting of the W eslev Club. He will speak on the prophets of the Old Testament.
The Wesley Club at SC is a part of the Methodist Student Movement, a national organization with groups on more than 2Gu0 college and university campuses across the country.
The club meets for dinner and I meeting every Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. in the new lounge in the basement of the University Methodist Church, 817 W. 34th Street.
Freedom Features One Giant Final
“Akademische freiheit” is the big difference between German and American universities. Doctor Harold von Hofe told Ger-man club members at their weekly meeting yesterday.
“There is greater student and professor freedom in German j universities.’* said von Hofe. ! "Students can come to class when they want and professors j can say what, and lecture when ! they like.”
Professor of German and chairman of the Fulbright Schol-i arship Selection Committee for Germany, von Hofe explained that American students are always under the pressure of examinations.
No Annual Exams
“In Germany.” the doctor said. “Students study for an overall examination to be given at the end of their four or more years of study.”
Academic freedom is also characterized, von Hofe said by the enthusiasm of the students in European universities.
“Germans talk about ideas and philosophies because over there it is the thing to do,” he explained.
"If anyone at this university discusses something with great emotion, his fraternity brothers wonder,” von Hofe joked.
Lively University “Berlin is the free island in the Red Sea,” he quoted. “Yet there is a crackling, sparkling atmosphere in the student body of the Free University.”
"35% of the students are from the Eastern Sector. They are eager to take part in the life of the W’est and at this university you find an aliveness present in few places in the world.”
"However,” the doctor continued. “the picture of American education is better than that of Europe.’*
“The weak or indifferent student often perishes because of his freedom,” von Hofe explained.
QUITE A SIGHT—Phil Seur, 1956 SC graduate now with Atomics International, shows a nuclear reactor model to Rudy Avila, student body chairman of the SC chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Atoms May Give Electricity to L.A.
If you live in the Los Angeles area, you may in the future be cooking, shaving, and lighting rooms with electricity supplied by atomic energy.
A. C. Werden, atomic engineer of the Southern California Edison Co., will elaborate on the possibility of atomically produced electricity >
in a talk Friday in Engineering cesful, Werden said yesterday.
A Bldg. at noon.
Using slides, he will explain the workings of the Sodium Reactor now being set up in the Santa Susana Mountains, 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. It is part of an experiment by the Southern ( utility. California Edison Co. under the j auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission and will start functioning in the spring of 1957.
The proposed plant is to convert the heat of atomic reactors into electrical power for distribution over Edison lines.
The areas of Saugus and Chatsworth now receiving electricity that has been converted by oil will be the first to receive the electricity converted by atomic energy.
Since areas in several counties lack a supply of water power, they may benefit from economical and easily obtainable electricity, if the plan is suc-
Similar plants are being installed in Denmark, Japan, and India. This reactor, however, has the distinction of being the first non-military reactor to produce electricity for a private
Women Called For Ushering
Women students who wish to usher for the opera “Tales of Hoffmann.” are requested to sign up in the Counselor of Women’s office, 223 SU, by Friday.
Ushers are needed for Saturday and Monday nights. Their admission will be free, according to Mrs. William Schaefer.
LIGHTS IN LAGOON
Early Morning Plunge By Frosh Saves Man
By JIM BYLIN
“I saw these unusual head lights out over the lagoon and thought maybe it was a ferry, but then I saw tail lights and heard a big splash and I knew someone had gone in.” related 18-year-old Freshman, Dick Bur-rud.
Bedded in his Marks Hall room with a bad cold following a once-in-a-lifetime experience, Burrud yesterday unfolded his story of an early Sunday morning rescue from the sea off Sunset Beach.
He was heading home at about 2:30 a.m. with a fellow band member. Chuck Brady, after doubling to the SC Homecoming Dance when they rounded a bend and saw the car plunge 25 feet into the ocean.
I)ust And Dark “We pulled up real fast and there was a big dust screen cov ering the road. It was so dark that I was almost run over when I ran across the load,” he said.
"I saw a guy standing there tearing off his tee-shirt and yelling. ‘there's someone jn the car’."
“The car was almost completely submerged. I told Chuck to get our own car over and we used the headlights for light.” Non-Swimmer “This other guy was ankle deep in water when he turned and yelled. ‘Hey. I'd go in. but I just remembered. I can't swim.’ ” “I went in. but couldn't see anything underwater. I finally found the back door, but there was no one in there. I got out quick because it was obvious that someone was in the front seat."
Burrud, an experienced life- j guard and sikndiver, worked at the Long Beach plunge last summer. lie holds certificates for life saving courses.
Water Buoys Body “A body was stuck behind the steering wheel due to the buoy- I
ancy of the water. I went in, got him out and dragged him to the surface. This was about four minutes after we first spotted the car go in,’’ he continued.
“When I got him to the surface. his mouth began foaming and white stuff began to come cut. He reeked of liquor and was completely out.”
“I took him to the shore and i gave him to this other guy and I told him to check his tongue,
! loosen his tie and start giving | artificial respiration.”
Burrud reached over from his bed for more medicine and told how a lady was standing on the bank screaming hysterically that she sawr a woman in the submerging car.
Seats Float
“So I went back and by this time all the seats were floating around in the car. I started checking the back. In the top of the car there was enough of an air nocket so I could lean
DICK BURRUD
rescues trapped man
back and get some air.”
Burrud couldn't find anyone so he surfaced once again, but the trio on shore swore that they saw a woman’s hand waving at the bark window'.
"I went back in, but by this time the car was sinking and submerging into the mud of the lagoon. There was tremendous pressure all around and no more air left in the car.”
"Another fellow', a Marine from Pendleton, had come into the water and was on the other side of the car, but he wouldn't go under because of the pressure.”
Finds Shoe, Bible
“We both went around the car. but couldn’t find anything. Finally I went down again and came up with a woman's high-heeled shoe and a bible.”
Burrud then said that they concluded that the hand they thought they had seen was just the Marine’s foot.
“By the time I swam ashore, someone had called an ambulance and the local volunteer fire department. But the annual fireman’s ball was just breaking up and everyone there thought this was all a big joke.”
He continued that when he went over to the body, the victim's tie hadn’t been loosened or his tongue checked.
“His-face was in the mud and this other guy was giving some kind of respiration by just pressing up and down on his back.” "He was still breathing, but the artificial respiration was so unorthodox that I was afraid to change it.”
The fire department then arrived on the scene with a resusi-tator and was followed by the local and state police.
Burrud is studying business administration at SC and is pledging Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He is a graduate of Huntington Beach High School.
Force Cannot Beat Will of Individual
Authority is a psychological power rather than brute force, thus tyranny is lost because it must use brute force is the opinion of Clifford L. Barrett, professor of Philosophy at Scripps College and the Claremont Graduate School.
Speaking on “The Problem of Authority in Social Norm" yes- j terday at the fifth of six Phi- , losophy Forum Lectures, Dr. Barrett said that authority is the kind of power in the social norm that we all feel.
He told the crowd in Bowne Hall of the Mudd Memorial Hall of Philosophy that a norm is the capacity to govern the wills of the indiv idual vv it h o u t destroying them.
Norms Necessary
Norms, he said, are expressions guiding thoughts and actions. Included are norms of choice and judgment.
“. . . Man's norms drive his motives and guide his behavior,” Dr. Barrett said.
The professor taught at UCLA, Syracuse and Princeton before going to Scripps and Claremont. He has had books published including “Ethics and Philosophy” and is currently doing research in the field of social ethics.
He brought out in the lecture that the authoritive norm is tHe ' rightful one and that we are under obligation to accept it. j
Rulers, according to Dr. Barrett, must rely for their power on the support of some small force such as the army and it doesn't have the general support of the people.
Tyrant Cses Fear
Since the entire society must live within certain views, tyrannical forces uses fear, which is • a way of controlling men's minds even if it is a negative view. |
He said that rulers seek , values that ordinary men will ( find uncomprehensible. The people are obdient and have faith that the ruler will do right. Hitler gained control in this manner by preaching for a higher culture and the creation of beauty and good for the German people.
The essence of democracy, he added, lies in compromise,! which is the best way to settle arising conflicts.
Next Tuesday the concluding lecture in the Philosophy Forum will be presented by Wilbur H. Long. SC professor of philosophy. He will speak on “Philosophy and Religion" at 4:15 in Bowne Hall. _
Newmanites
By CARL SAWYER
SC was slapped with a two year probation period last night as the NCAA Policy Council handed out penalties and suspensions to some of the nation's top universities at a meeting in Detroit.
The first year of the two-year probation period carries
the additional per.a.'ty that no Trojan athlete will be eligible to compete in an NCAA championship or co-operating event.
The probationary period delivered by the powerful policy council backed up action taken earlier by the Pacific Coast Conference.
Probation Continues
Demos to Aid Ike s Program Says Johnson
The dispatch from Detroit stated that the prooationaiy period would continue until July 1. 1958 and tor the period until July 1, 1957. no Trojan athlete will be eligible for national collegiate competition.
SC cannot appear on national television but can still participate in regional telecasts. Because of earlier committments, the UCLA-SC football game will be nationally televised.
No Comment
At word of the verdict from Detroit, Willis O. Hunter, SC’s director of athletics, and Fred D. Fagg, university president, said they had no comment at this time.
They are expected to make an official statement after studying the announced penalties.
All sports at SC will be effected by the probation. Not only football, but baseball, track, basketball and water polo will be effected by the Detroit edict.
Cal Also Hit
The only other PCC school to be dealt with by the Policv Council was California. Because it did its own investigating without prodding from the PCC, California was placed on probation only, for one year from yesterday.
California thus is eligible for NCAA championships.
The Policy Council refused also to lift the suspensions of Texas A. & M. and Univesity of Miami, killing the bowl hopes of two of the nation's top 10 teams.
Stiffest In History
North Carolina State College was the target of the stiffest penalty in' history at the Detroit meeting.
North Carolina State was suspended for four years, from participating in any NCAA and one cooperating with the association, and will not be allowed to participate in any televised event.
The Big Ten also did not escape the Detroit edict. Ohio State had been penalized by the Big Ten because of loans to players by football coach Woody Hayes and the Policy Council backed up the Big Ten action.
The Council reaffirmed conference crackdowns on Ohio State which will remain on probation until Aug. 21, 1957.
WASHINGTON — (UP) — Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson said yesterday congressional Democrats will cooperate with President Eisenhower's legislative program and “will seek to solve problems rather than create them."
But he said Democratic Senators generally interpret last Tuesday's election “as a call for a continuation of the policies we followed in the past session." He described these as legislation based on “the needs of the country rather than ths needs of partisanship.”
Coming Session
“It is too early to make any predictions about the legislative program for the coming session." Johnson told a news conference. “We know there are some problems that must be faced as soon as possible—such as agriculture.”
Democrats won control of Congress last Tuesday despite Mr. Elsenhower's landslide victory. They made almost all their gains west of the Mississippi River and many Democrats credit farm discontent for this show ing.
SC Problems To Be Aired At Workshop
The Education Faculty-Student workshop will have its first meeting today at 3 p.m. in the International Lounge. The purpose of the workshop is to draw student-faculty relationships closer together by offering the opportunity to students and faculty members to discuss and work out problems.
There will be a short business meeting for Education Council members from 3 to 3:15. after which all participating faculty members will be introduced. The workshop will consist of several discussion groups who will discuss the general topics of: “What I expect of my students’’ and “What I expect of my teachers.” Dr. Wendell Cannon, Dr. Charles Meyers and Dr. Donald Wilson will get the discussions underway with a few comments at the beginning of the session.
Authority on Reds
To Give SC Talk
Plan Outing For Sunday
The SC Newman Club will sponsor a Day of Recollection for all Catholic students this Sunday. The day will begin with Mass at 9 a.m. followed by, three conferences, question and answer sessions, and will close with a Rosarv and Benediction at 2.30 p.m.
Breakfast and lunch will be served.
A Day of Recollection is one that is set aside from the every dav routine of life to evaluate one's self in reference to the principles of God and the teachings of the Catholic Church. This aim is fulfilled by prayers, meditation and guiding conferences which enable a person to adjust his life accordingly.
The Day of Recollection will be held at the Convent of the Holy Souls. 3300 W. Adams Blvd. Larry Bertrand, religious chairman, has asked those students who wish to attend to contact him at the Newman House, 030 W. 35th Place, and make their reservations.
Father Parrish, S.J , will lead the discourses, Bertrand said “He is one of tbe top retreat masters on the west coast,” Bertrand added. Transportation will be provided from the Newman House. i
Dr. Bella V. Dodd, one time member of the American
National Communist Party and author of the best seller "School of Darkness” will make her first West coast appearance Thursday evening at 8 in FH 229. She will speak on “The Effect of Communism on American Education.’’ This will be the initial ! * ; lecture of Dr. Dodds tour, spon- ness’ js fhe wav in which Miss sored by the Hoilvwood Worn- Dodd deals with the question, en s Club. ‘Why do people, some of them The talk at SC was arranged obviously intelligent and well by the Newman Club and the educated, join the Communist ASSC Forum Committee. party?’ Because she is unspar-Red Authority ingly self-critical, we can accept Dr. Dodd is a recognized au- Miss Dodd's ’School of Dark-thoritv on Communism, a pro- ness’ as a most objective ac-fessor of political science, and a count of the making of a Corn-practicing New York attorney, munist.”
Her extensive know ledge of
Communism comes from the fourteen years she spent within the party, from 1935-1949. An article in the Saturday Review of Literature (Dec. ’54) states: “Bella Dodd ranks with Whit-
Slow Conversion
Her conversion to the Communist cause was not sudden, but the slow infiltration of a mind by appeal to its best motives, love of humanity, the vi-
taker Chambers and Elisabeth s*on a better societv, and a
Bentley as a leading converted w'flpr social justice.
Communist. Her testimony be- She says. "Although I had ta-
fore investigating committees ken one step at a time, each
has revealed the extent to w hich step follow ed naturally upon the
Communist infiltration has ta- previous one. I had not known
ken place, particularly among at first that these steps would
the teachers of our schools and lead me to Communism." It was
universities.
onlv after vears of activity that
Dr. Dodd’s many experiences she came to realize the true ob-
with partv machinery led her jectives of Communism, to write “School of Darkness,” In tbe meantime, as one of
describing her .life as a Com- the most active workers on tbe
munist. Herbert A. Philbrick, R^d front in the field ot educa-
who lived for nine years as a tion, she had the opportunity to
Communist while secretly work- know and to assess the extent
ing'for the FBI, said. “. . . per- of its attempts and its successes
haps one of the most important in infiltrating the American contributions of ‘School of Dark- j school system.
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NCAA Bans SC For Two Years
Southern
DAILY
TROJAN
VOL. XLVIII
•0>72
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1956
NO. 39
'DO NOTHINGS'
PCC Penalties Backed By Policy Croup; Troy
Ineligible Till July, 1958
Terzian to Blast Lazy Senators
By WES GREGORY
Certain ‘ do nothing" ASSC senators, who have not thus far proposed legislation will receive a slap on their respective wrists at tonight’s Senate meeting at 7:15.
ASSC Prsident Carl Terzian plans to voice his disappointment and disgust for those senators who have not bothered to query iheir constitu-
ents regard might benet “I am rati cert a i
the way tion.’’
"It a tors
ng legislation which it them.
ier disappointed that Senators are not find-what students want in of constructive legisla-Terzian cracked, is obvious that ihese Sen-arc depending too much on my office and Vice President Vi Jameson's office for legislative material." he declared.
Senators have found material concerning legislation in these two student body offices, rather than by contacting their constituents according to Terzian.
Troy Camp leaders
Petitions are now available for chairman and co-chairman of the Troy Camp project, which involves the long range organization of an expanded Troy Camp setup, he said.
Terzian will announce to the Senate his appointments to these major ASSC posts from the applicants w ho apply today in his office. 215 SU.
“These posts provide a good opportunity for energetic, devoted student leaders to launch the lone-ranee Troy Camp pro-jpct which will culminate in university-owned Troy Camp fa- j cilities.” Terzian said.
Foreign Students Representative Raliq Ahmed will ask that an objection by the Afro-Asian students be entered on the Senate minutes.
The Afro-Asians claim they wer<> denied use of university facilities to hold a meeting on campus, in view of their demonstration last week over the Middle East controversy.
liable Commendation
Senator-at-large Clunie Denholm will enter a resolution commending former Foreign Students Advisor Edward Gable for his work with the foreign students. Gable has resigned this post to accept employment in the East.
Junior Class President Larry Sipes will present his revised Junior Class Constitution to the Senate for approval.
Another resolution by Ahmed will place the ASSC Senate on record as supporting the stand taken by the United Nations concerning the Middle East.
Miss Denholm also plans legislation to create an elections evaluation committee of five who will investigate the whole system of election rules.
Many student leaders have felt for a long time that definite j changes in the election rules were necessarv.
Leaders to Tell Campus Detail To IFC Moms
The general subject of “Students on Campus” will be discussed this morning at the annual Friendship Breakfast sponsored by the Interfraternity Mothers Club.
Four student body leaders will discuss topics related to student activities before the mothers of new pledges, following a breakfast at 9:30 in the foyer of Town and Gown.
Leader* Tell W hy Mortar Board President Lou Scarborough will discuss “Service. Professional and Honorary Organizations on Campus." In addition. Starle Coffee, president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, will outline the activities and reasons for social organizations.
She will be followed by Greg Taylor, president of Blue Key. w ho will discuss student government at SC.
Following the panel discussions. ASSC President Carl Ter-ziin will sum up the three previous talks and then outline his “Reasons for the Existence of Student Activities.”
Mothers of the new pledges will be welcomed by Mrs. Stanley Gulliver, president of the IMC.
The lour student leaders will (Continued on Page 4)
GEORGIE WHITE
. . . river runner
Woman River Guide to Talk To Peak Club
Georgie White, the West’s only woman river-runner and rough water guide, will be on campus Friday to narrate her
films.
These films were taken during her trips through the Grand Canyon via a rubber raft.
The collection of films go under the titles of "Call of the Canyon" and “Beckoning Waters." They are dramatic, educational chronologies of a 21-day expedition in rubber life rafts through 330 miles of the Grand Canyon.
Presented by the Trojan Peak Club, these films show some of the geological wonders, the running rapids and many of the pertinent details of life on a river. Along with Mrs. Whtie’s films will be pictures taken by members and friends of the club.
The movies may be seen free of charge in 101 Harris Hall at 7:30 p.m. There will be free parking available in the faculty parking lot.
Two Soloists Slated for Noon Musical Today
Phyllis George and Fred Bergstone will be featured as soloists when Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity in conjunction with tbe School of Music presents the third program of the Music at Noon series in Hancock Auditorium today.
The Trojan Woodwind Ensemble will also perform with the soloists, under the direction of Clement Hutchinson of the SC faculty.
The program will feature works of Handel, Haydn. Beethoven. Milhaud and Kennan.
The Music at N’oon series has two remaining programs for the fall semester. They are scheduled for Nov. 28 and Dee, 12.
Speaker to Tell Club of Prophets
Dr. Willis W. Fisher, professor of Old Testament literature, will be the guest speaker at tonight's regular meeting of the W eslev Club. He will speak on the prophets of the Old Testament.
The Wesley Club at SC is a part of the Methodist Student Movement, a national organization with groups on more than 2Gu0 college and university campuses across the country.
The club meets for dinner and I meeting every Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. in the new lounge in the basement of the University Methodist Church, 817 W. 34th Street.
Freedom Features One Giant Final
“Akademische freiheit” is the big difference between German and American universities. Doctor Harold von Hofe told Ger-man club members at their weekly meeting yesterday.
“There is greater student and professor freedom in German j universities.’* said von Hofe. ! "Students can come to class when they want and professors j can say what, and lecture when ! they like.”
Professor of German and chairman of the Fulbright Schol-i arship Selection Committee for Germany, von Hofe explained that American students are always under the pressure of examinations.
No Annual Exams
“In Germany.” the doctor said. “Students study for an overall examination to be given at the end of their four or more years of study.”
Academic freedom is also characterized, von Hofe said by the enthusiasm of the students in European universities.
“Germans talk about ideas and philosophies because over there it is the thing to do,” he explained.
"If anyone at this university discusses something with great emotion, his fraternity brothers wonder,” von Hofe joked.
Lively University “Berlin is the free island in the Red Sea,” he quoted. “Yet there is a crackling, sparkling atmosphere in the student body of the Free University.”
"35% of the students are from the Eastern Sector. They are eager to take part in the life of the W’est and at this university you find an aliveness present in few places in the world.”
"However,” the doctor continued. “the picture of American education is better than that of Europe.’*
“The weak or indifferent student often perishes because of his freedom,” von Hofe explained.
QUITE A SIGHT—Phil Seur, 1956 SC graduate now with Atomics International, shows a nuclear reactor model to Rudy Avila, student body chairman of the SC chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Atoms May Give Electricity to L.A.
If you live in the Los Angeles area, you may in the future be cooking, shaving, and lighting rooms with electricity supplied by atomic energy.
A. C. Werden, atomic engineer of the Southern California Edison Co., will elaborate on the possibility of atomically produced electricity >
in a talk Friday in Engineering cesful, Werden said yesterday.
A Bldg. at noon.
Using slides, he will explain the workings of the Sodium Reactor now being set up in the Santa Susana Mountains, 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. It is part of an experiment by the Southern ( utility. California Edison Co. under the j auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission and will start functioning in the spring of 1957.
The proposed plant is to convert the heat of atomic reactors into electrical power for distribution over Edison lines.
The areas of Saugus and Chatsworth now receiving electricity that has been converted by oil will be the first to receive the electricity converted by atomic energy.
Since areas in several counties lack a supply of water power, they may benefit from economical and easily obtainable electricity, if the plan is suc-
Similar plants are being installed in Denmark, Japan, and India. This reactor, however, has the distinction of being the first non-military reactor to produce electricity for a private
Women Called For Ushering
Women students who wish to usher for the opera “Tales of Hoffmann.” are requested to sign up in the Counselor of Women’s office, 223 SU, by Friday.
Ushers are needed for Saturday and Monday nights. Their admission will be free, according to Mrs. William Schaefer.
LIGHTS IN LAGOON
Early Morning Plunge By Frosh Saves Man
By JIM BYLIN
“I saw these unusual head lights out over the lagoon and thought maybe it was a ferry, but then I saw tail lights and heard a big splash and I knew someone had gone in.” related 18-year-old Freshman, Dick Bur-rud.
Bedded in his Marks Hall room with a bad cold following a once-in-a-lifetime experience, Burrud yesterday unfolded his story of an early Sunday morning rescue from the sea off Sunset Beach.
He was heading home at about 2:30 a.m. with a fellow band member. Chuck Brady, after doubling to the SC Homecoming Dance when they rounded a bend and saw the car plunge 25 feet into the ocean.
I)ust And Dark “We pulled up real fast and there was a big dust screen cov ering the road. It was so dark that I was almost run over when I ran across the load,” he said.
"I saw a guy standing there tearing off his tee-shirt and yelling. ‘there's someone jn the car’."
“The car was almost completely submerged. I told Chuck to get our own car over and we used the headlights for light.” Non-Swimmer “This other guy was ankle deep in water when he turned and yelled. ‘Hey. I'd go in. but I just remembered. I can't swim.’ ” “I went in. but couldn't see anything underwater. I finally found the back door, but there was no one in there. I got out quick because it was obvious that someone was in the front seat."
Burrud, an experienced life- j guard and sikndiver, worked at the Long Beach plunge last summer. lie holds certificates for life saving courses.
Water Buoys Body “A body was stuck behind the steering wheel due to the buoy- I
ancy of the water. I went in, got him out and dragged him to the surface. This was about four minutes after we first spotted the car go in,’’ he continued.
“When I got him to the surface. his mouth began foaming and white stuff began to come cut. He reeked of liquor and was completely out.”
“I took him to the shore and i gave him to this other guy and I told him to check his tongue,
! loosen his tie and start giving | artificial respiration.”
Burrud reached over from his bed for more medicine and told how a lady was standing on the bank screaming hysterically that she sawr a woman in the submerging car.
Seats Float
“So I went back and by this time all the seats were floating around in the car. I started checking the back. In the top of the car there was enough of an air nocket so I could lean
DICK BURRUD
rescues trapped man
back and get some air.”
Burrud couldn't find anyone so he surfaced once again, but the trio on shore swore that they saw a woman’s hand waving at the bark window'.
"I went back in, but by this time the car was sinking and submerging into the mud of the lagoon. There was tremendous pressure all around and no more air left in the car.”
"Another fellow', a Marine from Pendleton, had come into the water and was on the other side of the car, but he wouldn't go under because of the pressure.”
Finds Shoe, Bible
“We both went around the car. but couldn’t find anything. Finally I went down again and came up with a woman's high-heeled shoe and a bible.”
Burrud then said that they concluded that the hand they thought they had seen was just the Marine’s foot.
“By the time I swam ashore, someone had called an ambulance and the local volunteer fire department. But the annual fireman’s ball was just breaking up and everyone there thought this was all a big joke.”
He continued that when he went over to the body, the victim's tie hadn’t been loosened or his tongue checked.
“His-face was in the mud and this other guy was giving some kind of respiration by just pressing up and down on his back.” "He was still breathing, but the artificial respiration was so unorthodox that I was afraid to change it.”
The fire department then arrived on the scene with a resusi-tator and was followed by the local and state police.
Burrud is studying business administration at SC and is pledging Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He is a graduate of Huntington Beach High School.
Force Cannot Beat Will of Individual
Authority is a psychological power rather than brute force, thus tyranny is lost because it must use brute force is the opinion of Clifford L. Barrett, professor of Philosophy at Scripps College and the Claremont Graduate School.
Speaking on “The Problem of Authority in Social Norm" yes- j terday at the fifth of six Phi- , losophy Forum Lectures, Dr. Barrett said that authority is the kind of power in the social norm that we all feel.
He told the crowd in Bowne Hall of the Mudd Memorial Hall of Philosophy that a norm is the capacity to govern the wills of the indiv idual vv it h o u t destroying them.
Norms Necessary
Norms, he said, are expressions guiding thoughts and actions. Included are norms of choice and judgment.
“. . . Man's norms drive his motives and guide his behavior,” Dr. Barrett said.
The professor taught at UCLA, Syracuse and Princeton before going to Scripps and Claremont. He has had books published including “Ethics and Philosophy” and is currently doing research in the field of social ethics.
He brought out in the lecture that the authoritive norm is tHe ' rightful one and that we are under obligation to accept it. j
Rulers, according to Dr. Barrett, must rely for their power on the support of some small force such as the army and it doesn't have the general support of the people.
Tyrant Cses Fear
Since the entire society must live within certain views, tyrannical forces uses fear, which is • a way of controlling men's minds even if it is a negative view. |
He said that rulers seek , values that ordinary men will ( find uncomprehensible. The people are obdient and have faith that the ruler will do right. Hitler gained control in this manner by preaching for a higher culture and the creation of beauty and good for the German people.
The essence of democracy, he added, lies in compromise,! which is the best way to settle arising conflicts.
Next Tuesday the concluding lecture in the Philosophy Forum will be presented by Wilbur H. Long. SC professor of philosophy. He will speak on “Philosophy and Religion" at 4:15 in Bowne Hall. _
Newmanites
By CARL SAWYER
SC was slapped with a two year probation period last night as the NCAA Policy Council handed out penalties and suspensions to some of the nation's top universities at a meeting in Detroit.
The first year of the two-year probation period carries
the additional per.a.'ty that no Trojan athlete will be eligible to compete in an NCAA championship or co-operating event.
The probationary period delivered by the powerful policy council backed up action taken earlier by the Pacific Coast Conference.
Probation Continues
Demos to Aid Ike s Program Says Johnson
The dispatch from Detroit stated that the prooationaiy period would continue until July 1. 1958 and tor the period until July 1, 1957. no Trojan athlete will be eligible for national collegiate competition.
SC cannot appear on national television but can still participate in regional telecasts. Because of earlier committments, the UCLA-SC football game will be nationally televised.
No Comment
At word of the verdict from Detroit, Willis O. Hunter, SC’s director of athletics, and Fred D. Fagg, university president, said they had no comment at this time.
They are expected to make an official statement after studying the announced penalties.
All sports at SC will be effected by the probation. Not only football, but baseball, track, basketball and water polo will be effected by the Detroit edict.
Cal Also Hit
The only other PCC school to be dealt with by the Policv Council was California. Because it did its own investigating without prodding from the PCC, California was placed on probation only, for one year from yesterday.
California thus is eligible for NCAA championships.
The Policy Council refused also to lift the suspensions of Texas A. & M. and Univesity of Miami, killing the bowl hopes of two of the nation's top 10 teams.
Stiffest In History
North Carolina State College was the target of the stiffest penalty in' history at the Detroit meeting.
North Carolina State was suspended for four years, from participating in any NCAA and one cooperating with the association, and will not be allowed to participate in any televised event.
The Big Ten also did not escape the Detroit edict. Ohio State had been penalized by the Big Ten because of loans to players by football coach Woody Hayes and the Policy Council backed up the Big Ten action.
The Council reaffirmed conference crackdowns on Ohio State which will remain on probation until Aug. 21, 1957.
WASHINGTON — (UP) — Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson said yesterday congressional Democrats will cooperate with President Eisenhower's legislative program and “will seek to solve problems rather than create them."
But he said Democratic Senators generally interpret last Tuesday's election “as a call for a continuation of the policies we followed in the past session." He described these as legislation based on “the needs of the country rather than ths needs of partisanship.”
Coming Session
“It is too early to make any predictions about the legislative program for the coming session." Johnson told a news conference. “We know there are some problems that must be faced as soon as possible—such as agriculture.”
Democrats won control of Congress last Tuesday despite Mr. Elsenhower's landslide victory. They made almost all their gains west of the Mississippi River and many Democrats credit farm discontent for this show ing.
SC Problems To Be Aired At Workshop
The Education Faculty-Student workshop will have its first meeting today at 3 p.m. in the International Lounge. The purpose of the workshop is to draw student-faculty relationships closer together by offering the opportunity to students and faculty members to discuss and work out problems.
There will be a short business meeting for Education Council members from 3 to 3:15. after which all participating faculty members will be introduced. The workshop will consist of several discussion groups who will discuss the general topics of: “What I expect of my students’’ and “What I expect of my teachers.” Dr. Wendell Cannon, Dr. Charles Meyers and Dr. Donald Wilson will get the discussions underway with a few comments at the beginning of the session.
Authority on Reds
To Give SC Talk
Plan Outing For Sunday
The SC Newman Club will sponsor a Day of Recollection for all Catholic students this Sunday. The day will begin with Mass at 9 a.m. followed by, three conferences, question and answer sessions, and will close with a Rosarv and Benediction at 2.30 p.m.
Breakfast and lunch will be served.
A Day of Recollection is one that is set aside from the every dav routine of life to evaluate one's self in reference to the principles of God and the teachings of the Catholic Church. This aim is fulfilled by prayers, meditation and guiding conferences which enable a person to adjust his life accordingly.
The Day of Recollection will be held at the Convent of the Holy Souls. 3300 W. Adams Blvd. Larry Bertrand, religious chairman, has asked those students who wish to attend to contact him at the Newman House, 030 W. 35th Place, and make their reservations.
Father Parrish, S.J , will lead the discourses, Bertrand said “He is one of tbe top retreat masters on the west coast,” Bertrand added. Transportation will be provided from the Newman House. i
Dr. Bella V. Dodd, one time member of the American
National Communist Party and author of the best seller "School of Darkness” will make her first West coast appearance Thursday evening at 8 in FH 229. She will speak on “The Effect of Communism on American Education.’’ This will be the initial ! * ; lecture of Dr. Dodds tour, spon- ness’ js fhe wav in which Miss sored by the Hoilvwood Worn- Dodd deals with the question, en s Club. ‘Why do people, some of them The talk at SC was arranged obviously intelligent and well by the Newman Club and the educated, join the Communist ASSC Forum Committee. party?’ Because she is unspar-Red Authority ingly self-critical, we can accept Dr. Dodd is a recognized au- Miss Dodd's ’School of Dark-thoritv on Communism, a pro- ness’ as a most objective ac-fessor of political science, and a count of the making of a Corn-practicing New York attorney, munist.”
Her extensive know ledge of
Communism comes from the fourteen years she spent within the party, from 1935-1949. An article in the Saturday Review of Literature (Dec. ’54) states: “Bella Dodd ranks with Whit-
Slow Conversion
Her conversion to the Communist cause was not sudden, but the slow infiltration of a mind by appeal to its best motives, love of humanity, the vi-
taker Chambers and Elisabeth s*on a better societv, and a
Bentley as a leading converted w'flpr social justice.
Communist. Her testimony be- She says. "Although I had ta-
fore investigating committees ken one step at a time, each
has revealed the extent to w hich step follow ed naturally upon the
Communist infiltration has ta- previous one. I had not known
ken place, particularly among at first that these steps would
the teachers of our schools and lead me to Communism." It was
universities.
onlv after vears of activity that
Dr. Dodd’s many experiences she came to realize the true ob-
with partv machinery led her jectives of Communism, to write “School of Darkness,” In tbe meantime, as one of
describing her .life as a Com- the most active workers on tbe
munist. Herbert A. Philbrick, R^d front in the field ot educa-
who lived for nine years as a tion, she had the opportunity to
Communist while secretly work- know and to assess the extent
ing'for the FBI, said. “. . . per- of its attempts and its successes
haps one of the most important in infiltrating the American contributions of ‘School of Dark- j school system.
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